28-04-2024, 03:20 PM
(This post was last modified: 29-04-2024, 06:02 AM by ReneZ.
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(28-04-2024, 02:39 PM)LisaFaginDavis wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Because it is not possible to prove absolutely that something is authentic, the burden of proof rests on the science to prove a manuscript is NOT authentic.
Thanks for that Lisa. This has always been my understanding but I could not have phrased it with any level of authority.
My thoughts have tended to be along the following lines:
Certainly, fakes exist.
However, complete faked manuscripts are rare. Their number is vanishingly small compared to the vast number of genuine manuscripts.
As a result, a manuscript must be considered genuine until proven otherwise.
Some cases of detecting fakes have been well documented and are interesting to read about.